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Crisis, Trauma, and Testimony: The Work of Mourning in the "Age of AIDS"
Penelope Ironstone-Catterall
This interdisciplinary dissertation argues that thinking with the critical concepts of crisis, trauma, mourning, and testimony serves to trouble the epistemological, political, historical, and literary models that have been mobilized in different ways and to different ends to render the "AIDS crisis" intelligible. Through these concepts, my dissertation provides an intertextual critical reading of the theoretical discussion occasioned by AIDS, and navigates the tensions, paradoxes, and structuring contradictions of its discursive construction. Central to the argument I work through is the contention that AIDS challenges the rhetorical rights of reference the discursive ordering of the times, spaces, and subjectivities of the pandemic through which intelligibility is constructed and assumed. I also argue that isolating and undoing, two centrally important mechanisms of psychical defense which attempt to defend the ego from difficult knowledges, must be accounted for in the cultural, social, and political economies of AIDS. Offering an intervention in contemporary discussions of trauma and the works of mourning, I maintain that trauma must be understood to be the other side of the work of mourning, and that it is imperative to think with the critical tensions between acting out and working through in addresses to and from AIDS. I explore the implications of these contentions for AIDS activism, AIDS historiography and histories, and German, French, and English literary testimony to the pandemic.
In Chapter One I
provide an initial working of the central concepts which appear throughout
the dissertation. I begin by addressing he critical connections between
rhetorics of crisis and critique, and show how these connections have
been manifest in contemporary discussions of trauma. Mapping out the theoretical
terrain of trauma, I conceptually couple it with mourning in order to
illustrate how interpretations of injury under the rubric of trauma serve
to normalize loss and unintelligibility while simultaneously pointing
to the critical aporias that HIV and AIDS give us to think. By showing
the critical connections between trauma and mourning, I argue that it
is necessary to consider the ways in which the world- and sense-shattering
becomes tied to world- and sense-making. I tie the work of mourning to
the production of a narratable self and trauma to the collapse of the
rhetorical rights of reference through which such a self might be narrated.
Testimony may be located in these movements between trauma and mourning,
between the unworked psychical contents of "experience" and
the work of interpreting individual and collective histories of suffering.
Chapter Two considers political-activist interventions that take on the subject as a contested site of political engagement, and conjoins these to a discussion of trauma and the work of mourning in AIDS politicality. I sketch out the implications of this thinking on trauma and mourning for liberal-democratic ideas of subjectivity, identity, and community. In mapping out the tensions between the psychic and political economies of AIDS, I argue that thinking on trauma and mourning can supplement critiques of the ideational supports of liberal democracies. I argue most centrally that AIDS activism, in its need to account for trauma and mourning, has demanded a rethinking of the grounds of politicality while at the same time demanding a sustained thinking about the stakes of identities and communities as they are prevalently understood. Reading the work of Douglas Crimp, Alexander García Düttmann, and Lee Edelman through the critical lens provided by Wendy Brown's critique of the injury/identity complex, I argue that AIDS activism shows the limits and liabilities of identity politics and assumptions of community. At the same time, however, I argue that AIDS discourses challenge thinking on connections between injuries, identities, and politicality in significant ways. Unpacking the oppositional discourses AIDS has provoked, I argue that it is also necessary to pose the question of narcissism and the manner in which its psychical economies undergird assumptions of identity.
Chapter Three addresses
the connections between the works of mourning and the works of historiography.
I argue, following Michel de Certeau, that historiography, the writing
of history, is tied to the work of mourning. The grid of intelligibility
that historiography places over the "historical" forecloses
the insistence of historicity its losses, absences, and gaps
through the retrospective production of a narrative mastery in which what
has been lost is acknowledged and named, and its affects refused. In historiography,
the contradictory gestures of summoning loss and refusing affect must
be understood as works of mourning that attempt to create a manageable
relation to loss in the production of "narratives of consolation."
Not unlike classical or analytical detective fictions, I argue, historiography
in general and AIDS historiography in particular serves the work of decathexis,
and in so doing allows the reader to work through her own relation to
loss. Functioning through ratiocination and abduction the production
and validation or invalidation of hypotheses the new terrain in
historiography known as the "contemporary history of AIDS" shows
how the discontinuities of AIDS, the ideas supporting the interpretation
that AIDS marks an historical rupture, have been supplanted by narrative
continuities in which the "lessons of history" mitigate the
anxieties of historical crises. Through a close reading of several AIDS
histories, I argue that the quest for origins in AIDS historiography reflects
attempts in biomedicine to manage ontological and epistemological uncertainty.
I suggest that the drive to locate the origins of AIDS reflects the desire
to normalize the pandemic by means of securing its identity in time and
space. AIDS historiography reflects a process of normalization in which
the unruliness of AIDS its disruption of stable and sedimented
"norms" of life is managed by being made into something
more amenable to thinking, and hence to the continuities of narration.
In Chapter Four I
turn my attention to AIDS autobiography and testimony. I situate my discussion
of AIDS testimony in the context of contemporary discussions of autobiography,
testimony and autothanatography in order to think about how writing is
implicated in the political projects of negotiating the difficult significances
of AIDS. Through a comparative analysis of AIDS literatures in French,
English, and German around questions of trauma and mourning and the connections
between writing and activism, I argue that literature, and testimony in
particular, must be considered a form of political address. Although primarily
understood as a work of self on self, autobiography as testimony takes
on the work of addressing another who will become its signatory. Both
intensifying and mitigating the tensions between identity and alterity,
testimony functions as a speech act in which representations of experience
are brought to bear on the interpretation of historical events. However,
this movement of interpreting the wounds of trauma in the text does not
occur in isolation but requires readers who will be addressed, sometimes
in troubling ways, by the information conveyed by it. Considered a form
of political address, AIDS testimony suggests that the genre(s) of autobiography
has been interpreted and revised to generate addresses to and from the
troubling historicities and traumas AIDS gives over to thought.
In conclusion, I
turn my attention to questions of pedagogy and ethicality, and in particular
to question of how it may be possible to learn from trauma and loss rather
than simply about it. By emphasizing the recursive relationship thinking
has to loss, I critically assess three different strategies of addressing
and being addressed by loss: strategies of identification and disidentification,
strategies of implicating oneself in the difficult knowledges of loss
and of locating in it new editions of old conflicts, and strategies of
indirection in which AIDS becomes something that is be addressed intertextually.
These three strategies suggest different approaches to the problems of
addressing and being addressed by difficult knowledges at the same time
as they gesture to the necessity of critically responding to the terrors
of alterity and our disavowals and refusals of it. It is in attempting
to retain or speak to alterity, in working to critically respond to it
without such disavowals and refusals, that the work of reading and writing
are implicated in the work of generating an ability to respond
a response-ability to and for loss which does not attempt to situate
loss in an absolute outside where its significances can be isolated and
so foreclosed from thought, or an inside where what has been lost might
be assumed to be effectively contained in the self.
Throughout this work,
my concern is to sketch out the basis for a ethics of reading and writing
that reflects on the limits, responsibilities, and implications of thought
when responding to difficult knowledges. Insofar as AIDS challenges assumptions
of intelligibility and knowledge, I assert that any thinking that can
take into account the difficult knowledges of AIDS must be understood
in its recursive relationship to the subjects and objects it sets apart
and interprets. I call this recursive relationship of thinking to itself
and to what it cannot contain "afterthought." The concept of
afterthought suggests a role for thinking in addressing and responding
to the delays and relays of trauma and mourning. The work of afterthought
is also central to an ethic of alterity in which the self works on itself
in order to develop a critical responsiveness to what it is not. The critical
aporias of AIDS require consideration of both the necessity and the impossibility
of the work of mourning. They also have many consequences for political
subjectivity and the historiography and autobiography that serve to support
it. The central tensions I explore the tensions between trauma
and the structures of defense that mitigate its affects, between loss
and the mechanisms deployed to make it intelligible, between the production
of knowledges and what is incommensurable to or in them turn on
the crisis of the subject and its ontological and epistemological consequences.


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Announcing the New Channel 9 Preview Site
Why are all the elements so large in a desktop browser?
Not a fan of the gray section backing.
A Metro inspired, Kinect driven visual communication system... Teudu
To anyone downloading the source, know that the sample data that I included has start and end dates June 15, 2012. Since the system only displays upcoming and "happening now" data, the sample data will not show unless you change the date accordingly (to at least a week or two after present).
A Metro inspired, Kinect driven visual communication system... Teudu
Just a note to everyone...we are looking to develop this into a platform for all sorts of visual communication needs. I was the only developer on this project (in a team of mainly HCI students), and development happened in just one semester. Thus, there is much room for improvement to truly make this project solid and flexible - any help would be much appreciated.
A Metro inspired, Kinect driven visual communication system... Teudu
Thanks for putting this up Greg!
The Scripps Research Institute's Collaborative Molecular EnvironmentGuess my reply got deleted..the old C9 threaded reply delete bug..
[Charles says: Actually, I accidentally deleted it...Oops]
Anyways, this is very impressive. My dad's a medicinal chemist and would find an app like this very useful.
This they really say it took 2 weeks to build that control and only 6-8 weeks to build the entire system?
Scoble: Exit Stage LeftSorry to see you leave Scoble. Hope you have the best of luck!
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No scobleizer?
Microsoft Robotics StudioI skimmed over the video to see the good parts so sorry if this was already mentioned, but..
What robot is being used for the first segment (Pioneer...)?
We're looking at adding robotics into our curriculum and Robotics Studio seems to be excellent for our needs.
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Technorati is loading great for me right now on IE7.
Not working here.
Works fine for me.
Steve Ball - Learning about Audio in Windows VistaWow.
A couple of weeks ago I was stumbling with the sound mixer because I wanted to limit my mIRC sound notifications and balance out my tv tuner volume. I was trying to do all this with the master volume control. I could never get it at the right volume and I had to constantly adjust the master volume per each app.
Then I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if I could adjust the volume per each application?"
Now I'm very much surprised that this desire became a reality. Thank you Larry!
You know, being able to remotely control the volume per app would be cool too. (I'm not sure if you've already decided to do this as I have not exactly watched the whole video.)
Thanks guys! Vista is looking really sweet.
Kam Vedbrat - Looking at Windows Vista's user interface (AERO)Nice video!
Though, I will ask this question, is this overall look of vista (the title bars, taskbars, etc) very close to the final image? There seems to be a lot of room for improvement, especially the title bars of the windows (those have an odd contrast with the left and right nav buttons).
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Heh. I was actually chuckling when Scoble went, "Oooh, is that an RSS feed?".
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Seeking Equilibrium || Gawain & De'Ryanna
When she exited the Gateway, she would note that she was not within the Inn, but in the garden behind it. Gawain was seated on the ground, cross-legged and in the lotus position. His eyes were closed, but he was aware that Ryan had arrived. With a smile, he let the gateway disappear, and nodded. "Hello, daughter. I trust you are doing well? Good burger, by the way. I did not know you had such a gift for cooking."
"Oh. Madeline decided to go to the stables. Something about not wanting to sit in on another 'family meeting'. " He chuckled. "She said something to the affect that she had reservations about getting into trouble again so soon."
"It's all about the nose" she settled herself down out of the Gateway and gave a bit of a shake to her skirt. She was still wearing the apron from the kitchen.. It would have to do. She didn't take much of a look around her and she wanted to stay as focused as she could. "You can't actually cook poorly when you can smell like we can, now can you?" Asking him that question with a raise of her brow.
"I suppose not." Another smile. "Still, when the other side takes over, you tend to forget those things...along with table manners." He gave a slight chuckle at that, and continued. "I wanted a chance to speak with you one-on-one. Is this acceptable?"
Ryanna didn't move too much further, she was unsure on where to go and she was watching her father with a curious eye. A bit of a tip to her as she observed him. "I wouldn't know about all of that. Since I grew up not being able to change like you or my brother I adapted." She paused and shifted from one foot to the other slowly, keeping her gaze on him. "I can't say that I blame Madeline for wanting to be elsewhere. What's so important that we have to talk about that could not have waited for another day."
"You can sit down, Ryan. Trust me. As for what I wanted to speak with you about, it's simple. Control. I taught you to change, then I had to go. I apologize for this, but in my life, I have learned that it is a futile notion to dwell on the past. The here and now is what matters." He sighed. "You know...I've heard it said that the Wheel weaves as the Wheel will, but sometimes, I feel it does us all a disservice."
"To be quite blunt, I would like very much to be allowed to teach you. But I wish one thing from you." His eyes opened, and she would notice that they were not the burnished gold that they sometimes changed to, but a deep ocean green.
She almost snorted. Almost. It was at the motion of control. She thought that she had a great deal of control and would tell him as much. "You would assume that I have no control?" De'Ryanna didn't sit down but instead she took two steps to the right, the movement very fluid and together even as the skirt swished around her ankles. "Why do you assume such a thing? I'm not running off tearing everything apart now am I? Or raging like some wild and untamed animal." Here she paused and even lifted up her chin a tad as she looked at him. "I have control enough to have not shifted forms since that first night." Whether that was due to her own power or someone elses she didn't say. She saw the look in his eyes but she didn't know what it meant. She hadn't been around him long enough for things like that.
"De'Ryanna. I wasn't around for your childhood. One day, should you become a parent yourself, you will understand how painful that is. I didn't assume that you were raging like a wild beast, but mark me, the change will come upon you, and I would see you prepared for it." He paused there, looking as if he had more to say. "Look, I've never told you, but Ryan, I love you. You are a part of me, as is Xavier and Madeline. I don't want this strife between us anymore. Light, can't you see that I'm trying? I missed part of your life, and burn me to ashes, I don't want to miss anything else. I've lived a long life, but I never truly lived until I knew the love of your mother. When we found that she was with child, I was happier than I had ever been. Do you understand? There hasn't been a day that passed that I didn't regret the way things happened. Not a one. Just....the hardest part is reaching out. I am doing so, and I hope that you will. At least a little. Do you have any idea what it does to me to know you hate me? You are blood of my blood, and you care less for me than some hay brained farmer." It took a lot for Gawain to open up like this, truth be told. He would not even bother, except for the fact that she was his daughter.
Did she ever say that she hated her father? She had strong feelings of dislike for how thing turned out in hr younger years, but it wasn't her fault and it wasn't there fault. It's just how life turned out to be. She shook her head. "I don't hate you. What strife are you talking about?" Still she didn't sit. He wasn't sitting and she thought it would be rude otherwise. "If there is any strife it's in the fact that you are trying to hard to make up for loss time. Which you can't. That's why its lost." Seemed logical to her and in her mind. Her eyes turned from him a moment as she walked off a few paces. "You want me to simply open up and pretend that nothing ever happened. Well it did I can't blame you or Mother for it. Both of you were always off somewhere, which is why we were fostered off in the first place." Not that she had minded too much. It was duty. It had to be done. "Everything isn't that simple. Instead of thinking that I'm trying to be some rebellious daughter, have you wondered why I won't do things? Or why I'm not out rightly begging to be taught?" She was keeping her hands to herself, folding her arms across her waist. When she looked at him again she saw he was sitting...but on the ground. She was not going to sit in the dirt.
"It is not in our nature to beg, De'Ryanna. I do not think of you as a rebellious daughter, but as someone who keeps their emotions bottled up for fear of losing control of them. That's the problem. I'm the same bloody way." He sighed, looking around the immediate area for something for her to sit on. Ah! He had a spare cloak in his knapsack, which he withdrew and spread out before her. "There you go. You know, I had all these ideas about how things would go when I saw you again, but it didn't occur to me that this would be the way of things. I cannot apologize again, but I will offer to try and make it up to you. If you would like, you can sit there. I hadn't thought of...well, you know me. I'm not the most careful planner in the world."
And she didn't know how he thought that this would go. "I'm still not even sure what you are trying to do here." It was the truth. If it werent then she wouldnt be able to say it. "I'm not asking you to apologize for anything for there's no need. You should do. If we're here for a purpose then we should be about it. I'm not like your other daughter and I'm not like your son. I have my own way of dealing with things and it's to move forward. But I'm not going to sit down there and offer you my hand and simply open up to you like last time, because I can't."
"Can't, or won't? Listen, Ryan, I'm here to stay. I knew there was a chance that I would be taken away last time, but Light help me, nothing will drag me away again." He paused, rising. "I see you're incredulous of this. Very well. " He locked his hands together, as if in prayer, then, seizing Saidin, wove complex weaves of Spirit. "I, Gawain Cauthon, do swear to not abandon those I love again. Not my children, not my wife, not even my friends. I swear this under the Light, and by my hope for salvation and rebirth." He released Saidin reluctantly, savoring the last few moments of the rush that accompanied it, and sighed. "I cannot go back on this, De'Ryanna. You know, having sworn on the Oath Rod, that this is an Oath that binds deeper than any." With that, he resumed his seated position, and looked up, directly into her eyes. "I only ask for a chance. That is all."
Re: Seeking Equilibrium || Gawain & De'Ryanna
What...was he doing? After his first set of words, asking if she can't or won't Ryanna had something to say. It was on the tip of her tongue and just about ready to come out and say something when she felt and heard what he was doing. Since he was a male Channeler she couldn't see his weaves (though it worked the other way around) but she felt the power of them and that is what caused her to stop. Oh how she wished she knew how to make one of those Weaves. a Binding weave for Oaths and the like, though if she had she would have made a few on certain people. This.. was not something to take lightly for once you swore something like that only death , or a very painful process, could remove it. And then you would have wished for death. Ryan looked away, down at the ground, and then she looked at him and gave a small sigh. "All right Father. Since you are more stubborn than I, I suppose giving you a chance is the only thing I can do. But hear me when I say that I can't do some things easily. It's not that I won't. " even if that was a part of it. "I can't. Not easily."
He noticed the way she was looking at him, and smiled. "So, you understand that I cannot go back on my word." Nodding, he continued. "I could Delve you, find out what's wrong, but without consent, it would make me no better than that jerk Taim. Oh, Light, you have NO idea how many times I wanted to set his arse on fire....but that's a completely different conversation, and one for another time." He settled down a bit, and smiled. "I taught you how to draw the beast out, but not to control it once it was out. That was a great disservice to you, and as I have apologized once, I will not do so again. However, I can explain a few things that may help you to use the form as a gift. That is, if you are willing to learn." Why did he, all of a sudden, feel like Cadsuane was looking over his shoulder? The woman had an iron hand, and an even harder tongue.
"I have learned how to keep it at bay, mostly, since it was set free." She was looking at him with a bit of a cautious eye because he had mentioned Delving. She didn't know what he would find if he did so. True she was okay physically, she wouldn't find that she had any broken bones or anything like that, it was a wonder if the Delving could see other things. Non physical things. "To a point as I have not shifted since. He didn't want me to shift." The 'He' was Benjamin, but she wasn't going to say his name. "And after you left the Lycan kept trying to come out until he gave me something that restrained it. I suppose that's a way to put it." It was how she was putting it anyway because it was true. "His way of teaching me to not be controlled be the raging emotions inside my head." Without Gawain there Ben had stepped in to 'train' her in the way he wanted her to be trained. and she couldn't simply say no.
Gawain growled, shook his head, and sighed. "I suppose I should have seen that coming a mile away. He is an opportunistic, arrogant....burn me. It's my fault, isn't it." That wasn't a question, but an admission. "Look, it's not a bad thing....it's actually useful, once you learn control. However, I hadn't thought about how the Tower teaches to keep emotions bottled up behind a cool facade, so there is another failing on my part. I would like to make this right, but I need your permission. You may, if you agree to it, benefit from this in more ways than one." Yes, he had a few ideas swirling in his head. Benjamin had gotten his hooks in, but they weren't in so deep that they couldn't be removed.
Ryanna looked down at the coat he had put out on the ground for her and studied it a moment. If she was going to try to come to some sort of agreement with her Father the least she could do was lower herself on the ground. Looking at it she tightened her jaw before stepping over. Standing on it she bent down, shaking her skirt around her so it belled out. She didn't sit; rather she stayed positioned on the ball of her feet and steady. At least she was making the effort? 'I cannot give you permission if i don't know what it's for." If he said it, then she missed it.
"It's quite simple, and at the same time, complicated. You see, you have built walls around your ability, much like the Wilders that the Tower claims, and those walls must come down if you are to learn." He chuckled a bit, shaking his head. "I'm not going to get all Kung-Fu Master on you, nor am I going to force anything. I just want to teach you the way I was taught. That's an interesting story...would you care to hear it?"
Ryanna lifted her chin. Not too much but just enough. "The thing you should realize, Father, is that practically anything that I do that involves emotion is tied to him. He can feel it, he can sense it, he can use me by it. He can even make me feel any way that he wants me to feel if he wants to." She folded her hands on her lap. "Much like the way the Warder bond works. It's the same as that. You can feel the others emotions... sense them. You won't just be teaching me, but you'll be teaching him if he's choosing to listen in at the moment and if I were to do something like that.....let down the path to that side..." that was when she trailed off, but her eyes kept looking at Gawain. "He will know what I'm doing and pay attention. Whether he is already or not." She had no way of knowing when he was or not unless he did something to her.
That gave Gawain pause. "He can force you to do things?" Of course, a father's mind went to dark places when something like that was said. Still, shaking it off, he continued. "Let him listen. Let him come, if he dares. I swore over your crib that I would protect you, and Light knows I've done a piss-poor job so far. Let me do so now. Take my hand. You'll find that there is no way he can penetrate my mind, or my soul. You see....my soul already has another owner. One of the perks of the trade, or drawbacks, depending on the way you look at it. Come. Embrace the Source, and link with me. We have things to do."
He stopped, shaking his head. "I assume you already know how to link with a male Channeler. You've already proven to be quite gifted."
Right then she tensed, when he asked her to take his hand, and she did not move either forward or back but stayed where she was. Her eyes looked down to his hands and then back up to him. "What is it that we would be doing that I am needing to take your hand? Despite your words I am cautious about taking your hand. There's more to learn from a person - soul or not - and Im not trusting of it enough to link. What will you be pulling from me." For that's what happened when a link was made, the other used the power and energy from the ones linked to make their own ability stronger. She wasn't too sure about having to men of power running around inside her system unless it was needed.
"No, no, you misunderstand. You will be directing the flows. I will be lending you the measure of my power. Not to brag, but when I was tested, Logain remarked that he was almost jealous. I have an affinity for Fire and Spirit, the latter of which made me the butt of many jokes in the Black Tower. 'Hey, Gay-wain, why don't you go find a nice white dress?' Of course, the one that said that just now went back on a solid diet. Having your jaw wired shut limits your diet."
"Would it make you feel any better if we didn't physically touch? Linking can be done without contact, it's just easier that way."
Her hands on her lap flexed slightly but she stayed still aside from that. "What is the linking for? You want to give me extra power so that I can learn to control power? Feed me energy? That is the part that I am not understanding. The why or the what that we are about to do. I rarely bound into something before I know the reasoning behind it." Rarely. She did on occasion and when she did she did things that caused her to nearly bleed to death...
"The linking will give you power. I am strong, not to be a braggart, and I feel that if we work together, we can, if not sever, at least loosen Benjamin's hold on you." He nodded, reaching into his coat pocket and withdrawing two objects. One was a jade statuette of a portly man, seated and with a sword resting on his knees, and the other was an ivory-carved woman with a flared skirt, holding an amber rod. "These will come in handy, and since I cannot use the woman, being as it is attuned to the female half, I think it would be safer in your hands."
That caused her to move, and move backwards and rise up a bit on her feet. "You said you wanted to teach me tricks and control, not that you wanted to tamper with the bond. Do you know, well of course you do." She assumed he did anyway, "what tampering with the bond can do to the people attached to it? The Danger you'd be putting me in if you tried to sever it or just 'loosen' it. Be-- He is as much a part of me as my own skin and blood." maybe it was a bit of panic. "How would you separate me from myself?"
"De'Ryanna, have you forgotten the night at the cliffs?" He spoke softly, and without any anger. "I won't lie to you. It will cause pain, hopefully more for him than for you, but in the end, it will work. Of course, if you would allow it, I could simply lure him out and burn him out of the Pattern. A weave strong enough would erase the changes he foisted upon you."
She only looked at her father a moment or two before she began to slowly shake her head. "That's your answer to everything isn't it. Father." Ryanna had almost said his first name but caught herself. "Take it and destroy it. What type of child do you think he is that you could simply lure him anywhere. He goes where he wants to go and does what he wants. He doesn't simply call when just anyone calls him." Didn't mean that he wouldn't when certain people called. But it couldn't be just anyone. "I highly doubt there isn't anything, besides killing me, that could make him come to you n a physical substantial form." He'd send his voice, or an image, but to get a physical man was another matter. "He has many ways about him that I don't even know and unless he's removed from me if you kill him you would kill me.."
That caused Gawain's eyes to squeeze shut. "De'Ryanna. That is not my answer for everything! Light, I had no idea he had....never mind. I won't even think of that. Instead, I suggest you take this. If you Ward yourself before you sleep, and keep it close, under your pillow, for example, then tie the weave off, he at least won't be able to invade your dreams. Ryan, I've fought the Forsaken and managed to get out of the fray with my skin intact. He cannot be even close to as powerful as they. You've heard the stories of the Forsaken. They aren't exaggerations. In fact, sometimes they're understatements. I just want to help. That is all. Whether you want to be free of the man, or to be able to control your Lycan form and retain your right mind, I ask you to please let me help. Use my knowledge, my experience, and my skill."
]y do you think that he cannot be as powerful as they are?" It was a simple question. "You're underestimating him." She wanted to turn or... move and do something more visible with her hands besides the slight picking at her apron that she was doing now. It was something so she couldn't complain all too much. "If getting rid of him was that easy... do you honestly think he would still be with me now? That Mother wouldn't have done something of him years ago when he first claimed me? " She didn't know the story behind what her Mother did, or didn't due in the issue of Benjamin. Sometimes.. sometimes in a fleeting thought she wondered if she had a hand in it all. Still..she was chancy about taking the item but she held out her hand anyway.
He handed the figurine over to her, and nodded. "Be careful. It's not a sa'angreal, but it is one of the stronger ones I've come across. As for knowing he isn't as powerful as the Forsaken, it's simple. They aren't cowardly. Stupid, yes, Light-blind fools, and jealous of others with power, but not cowardly. If he were not a coward, he would not use disembodied voices and spectral images. He would appear in the flesh. There is something we can do, if I have to bring half of my friends from the Tower to do it. Something." Anything, he added mentally. At last, he hit upon an idea. It was risky, but it was also worth a shot. "Ryanna. You said he could sense things about you, correct?"
De'Ryanna laughed. She took the figurine and rose to her feet in a single motion and laughed a short and semi-musical burst. "Then you're a fool Father. Either a fool or you're arrogant. Thinking he's a coward simply for not showing. " the standing was helping. She needed to stand. "I wouldn't waste my time by gracing those I didn't deem worthy with my presence either if I had the liberty not to." She saw Benjamin's action to be the same way. He wasn't going to give those he didn't feel deserving of the courtesy to have his full presence. But then again, he was that arrogant. "To answer your question.. yes. Yes he can." Looking at her newly acquired item as she spook.
He rose quickly, closing the distance between them in a blur. He kept his hands to himself, but only just. "The last person to name me fool had to be carried out. In pieces. Have a care. I am your father, De'Ryanna, but I am also not one to be trifled with. Beneath his notice? Hah! He's afraid. Too wrapped up in his 'oh, look at me, I can do stuff with my mind' facade to come and face someone without a human shield!"
"You know what? I'm wasting my time. I thought that if we talked things over, maybe you'd come around. Perhaps I was wrong, and you enjoy being Benjamin's plaything." He spat that last bit, clearly either angered or hurt by her off-hand comments.
"Before you decide to spout off at the mouth, Father, about whatever you think is going on between he and I you have some knowledge in what you speak." her tone was still calm. "If I were him." and she may as well be "I wouldn't bother to face you either because I'd have no reason. You have to change your way of thinking if you ever want to have a chance at him. He's not like the others you've meet in your time and years. Fight him with cool-headed logic and reasoning instead of brute force and whatever you concoct together of a plan might work. He needs reason and simply seeing you or engaging in ego's isn't enough." She knew it wasn't enough because she was thinking of herself, when she did that she often found it to be similar to how he would think. It worked that way, maybe because of their connection. She didn't move from Gawain even though he was close, he'd even see that his Daughter had a challenging look in her eye as she kept hers locked on him. The rest of her face was emotionless.
He moved closer, almost allowing his nose to touch hers. "You don't have the guts, little girl. I see that look in your eyes, and you don't frighten me a bit. What, are you late for a rendezvous with your beau?" He drew back, laughing in a mocking manner. "My mistake. I thought you were made of sterner stuff."
"Don't have the guts for what?" That was the question wasn't it? To have Benjamin come or to shift, something was being lost in translation. Her head would have canted to the side if she were not keeping with her appearance of calm instead of turning it into curiosity. "To learn control? Yes, I see you're doing a grand job of demonstrating it right now." He was a man and he was probably still holding on to the Source. It made sense if he was slipping a bit into madness. As for the remark about Tobias, she knew she wasn't late for anything so there was no need to respond.
Gawain had not released the Power, true, and he stood his ground, the carved angreal still in his hand. "I am in complete control, girl. The fact that you are not on your ass is a testament to that." Would he do so? Of course not, but she might not know that. His attempts at angering her were getting him nowhere, so he switched tactics. "You know, I've heard that it's a disgrace to be put out of the Tower for being under-powered. How long did it take them to give you the boot? They taught you to not show emotions, so I have no idea just how badly that stung your little ego."
With that, he slammed a shield between her and the Source, then, seemingly without a bit of logic, wove Air, binding her arms and flipping her to hang by her ankles. "Go ahead, break free. I dare you!"
The shield went up only for it to come undone like knife cutting through fabric mere seconds after it was done. It was quick enough to prevent her skirt from falling up completely around her waist in the attempt to turn her upside down. But the thing here to really note was that the Source used to cut this Weave was not her own. A female cutting a man's Weave wasn't unheard of, but it wasn't always the easiest thing to do for they couldn't see the threads to cut so it was more like cutting blind. No. What cut it, was a mans power, and it was dark, and tainted and wasn't even a fraction of ability, but it was strong enough to make her right again. "Insults. You really must not know me. If you're going to insult me then so do with something that's real and not anything that will clearly mark you as a liar." If she had gotten kicked out she wouldn't have the ring. Aside from that, they'd never kick out someone as strong as she was. But what Ryanna did not like out of all of this was the burning feeling inside of her body when that side of the Source had been Channeled through and she felt queasy, her hands flexed at her side. "So go on and be childish. I've had enough of that sort in Court. "
He had felt the oily taint, reaching out of nowhere to sever his weavings. "Light. Not since the Taint was cleansed have I felt so....dirty." He shuddered, clearly unnerved. "Ryan, I only wanted you to show some emotion. Something. ANYthing. Keeping your other side bottled up is only going to make things worse. It isn't a housepet to be kept on a chain, it is a wild thing, but a thing that can be controlled. If you think me childish, so be it. But I will not sit idly by and watch you be destroyed."
"What do you want me to show? Anger? Aggression? Mournful regret and spite?" Spoken as her hands closed together. After that day I had my first change Benjamin felt all the rising anger within me and believed that it would drive me insane." Yes, she had that man's name and it was stressed in three different places and had a slight roll on her tongue. "He put a thin silver chain around my bare waist that had not beginning nor end and I couldn't remove. Whenever I'd get past a certain level of anger and the ache of the shift came about, that chain would burn into my skin hotter than any fire I've ever known and would continue until I brought my temper back down. Control your temper, he'd say, don't be eaten alive by your emotion, he'd say." There was only a slight rise in her voice but it was more cold than hot. "Even with the healing ability I have from being a Lycan the scars wouldn't heal. Not as long as I wore it around me. I had to wear it and endure the pain and effects of that Light forsaken chain for three months. So pardon me, Father, if I don't get hot headed and fly off the handle and shift because you want to fling about insults to make me mad. If anything I learned from those months is that that shifting cannot happen in anger and blind rage."
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Gawain was experiencing something he was entirely unaccustomed to. He was failing, and miserably. So, he drew on what he remembered of being a lonely, conflicted young man and closed the distance between them. In an act of something between recklessness and bull-headedness, he wrapped his arms around his daughter, pulling her close to him. "I love you, De'Ryanna. I have loved you since the moment you sprang forth from your mother, whom I also love almost to the point of mindless adoration. I will never let you go, so please....don't struggle. You are safe. You belong to no one save yourself, and the one who you choose to share your life with. There is always a choice. Always." He spoke softly, as befitting one speaking to a beloved daughter, and while he was not crushing her, the tension of the hug he was sharing with her would not and could not be lessened.
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If he could hear heartbeats he would hear that under her quasi-calm exterior her heart was pumping a mile a minute, like a frightened rabbit, when he took that first step towards her. She wasn't fearful of what he may do to her for what she said - Ryanna figured she could handle that - but it was a fear that he was going to touch her and she didn't know what would happen because of it.
She had told him what could happen if he touched her and yet he said it was nothing to worry about and gave a bit of his reasons. But she didn't believe it. How could she believe it? Better still, how could she believe that he would want to touch her in any way that was comforting knowing what was in her. There was only one person who had a want to touch her (besides Benjamin) and after her Father had spoken to her....but here he was saying that he loved her and getting closer. Pride made her stand her ground and not move like the frightened rabbit she was on the inside. But she cringed. Cringed and tensed when she felt his arm go around her and when she tried to pull away and found no give, that was when she started to panic.
"Let me go." De'Ryanna started pushing back on him as hard as she could. He could see strain along her shoulders and arms. "You don't know what you're doing. Father, let me go! Please!"
Panic started into her voice and now not only was she using her hands but she was trying to kick him, anything to get him to let her go. Whatever hold she had on her side of the Source was gone but that feeling in her body was still there from the breaking of Gawain's shield that happened moments ago.
"He'll find out about you, let me go! Let me go!" Perhaps it was because she cared about her father, in some way, as to why she was wanting to be free. She had gone all those years without touch and now here was another person who still wanted to touch her and wasn't afraid to do so. It was a cracking her walls.
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Gawain, as it turned out, knew exactly what he was doing. "Hush, child. This thing has gone on between us for far too long. Don't be afraid, okay? Your old man knows what he's doing, and it's about time I started getting some things right." His tone was soothing, low, and non-threatening. All the anger of earlier? It was a facade, meant to search for cracks in that blasted Tower-bred calm. He thought idly to himself that if the Black Tower had taught calm in this manner, maybe things would have ended better. No time for that now, he was, as he held his daughter, showing her that he meant no harm. He had, it seemed, even released the Source. However, there were ways taught to him to mask that little fact from anyone, male, female, or Forsaken. How better to dupe your enemies than by learning the trick directly from them?
After many moments had passed, he pulled back just far enough to look her in the eye. "Do you understand now that I would do anything for you?" He hadn't loosened his grip much, but he did see the look in her eyes. "Now, if I release you, are you going to leave in any way, shape, or form? I ask specifically because after being duped by Cadsuane with that same exact question, I've learned a thing or two." One of those things being how you should never, ever underestimate the strength of an arm because of the head of white hair attached to it.
After many moments had passed, he pulled back just far enough to look her in the eye. "Do you understand now that I would do anything for you?" He hadn't loosened his grip much, but he did see the look in her eyes. "Now, if I release you, are you going to leave in any way, shape, or form? I ask specifically because after being duped by Cadsuane with that same exact question, I've learned a thing or two." One of those things being how you should never, ever underestimate the strength of an arm because of the head of white hair attached to it.
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If things had gone on 'far too long' between them was probably a matter of debate as each person had their own feelings about time. If De'Ryannna had been in a less panicked state of mind she would have question it well as asked what 'this thing' specifically was because right now it could be a number of things. Surely he didn't mean their dislike of each other because by his own words he had never not liked her. His voice may have been soothing but it should have been strong and aggressive to drive home the point in a mind that was racing through different possibilities of a "what if" situation.
Internally De'Ryanna was growing hot, her temperature rising the longer Gawain continued to hold on to her and would soon intensify to a level that could be felt by others. If her father was able to feel heat then holding on to his daughter would be synonymous to holding a stoked fire. One that was starting to prick and crawl over his skin and picking at his emotions as small sparks along his skin. Gawain had been displaying a lot of them. She knew what was going on and it was causing her to put weight against her push for a more concentrated effort instead of merely failing about. Her heartbeat was still quick and hard swallows were needed to ensure that got the breath she needed. She felt Gawain's hold and she felt the other's pull.
Calm down, it was telling her as her own emotions were being worked on to that degree. This unseen hand was pulling at the peace that had been buried by panic and was pulling it to the surface. This was going on at the same time Gawain started to loosen his hold. De'Ryanna's breath started to normalize and the pushing started to cease and her temperature pan out. She knew what was happening - or rather, what wasn't happening - and the question on her mind was 'why'.
That question came with other questions that would have to be examined at another time. Ryanna had a slightly distant look in her eyes when her father asked her if she was going to leave. To answer honestly she said: "I will back out of your arms reach."
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Gawain smiled slightly...she was a Sister, no doubt, to her bones. "You sound like your mother, always trying to trick the block-headed lunk.....very well. Even though we both know that, if I wish, I can easily catch you." After all this, he was not willing to take several steps backwards. "Maybe we could try this talking thing again. I hear all the young people are doing it these days...." He began to release her, slowly, stopping a moment to hold her shoulders as he looked her straight in her eyes. "Hey. Don't forget what I just told you...alright?" He leaned closer, whispering to her in a language that had been lost since before most of them were born, then placed a small kiss on her brow.
After that was accomplished, he stepped back, nodded, and took hold of the Power once more. It was getting dark, and in this form, his night-vision was getting kind of bad these days. "Just consider it, De'Ryanna. Alright?"
After that was accomplished, he stepped back, nodded, and took hold of the Power once more. It was getting dark, and in this form, his night-vision was getting kind of bad these days. "Just consider it, De'Ryanna. Alright?"
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De'Ryanna cringed internally, but it was a toss up as to whether she did so because of the kiss to the forehead, or because he compared her to her mother. The latter wasn't necessarily a bad thing, simply something she didn't want to be. She wanted to be her own person and not sounding like another. Any unsettling feeling she had was quickly being squelched as she didn't want to think on it for very long.
As soon as he let her go she did just what she said she was going to do: move out of arms reach. She didn't dispute his statement about catching her because he probably could if he put his attention to doing so, instead she accepted it with a nod of her head. Out of reach for the moment, she brushed her hands down her skirt to settle herself and gave shake of her shoulders as she lifted her chin slightly in the air - it was her way of regaining her composure after her small act of desperation. "Congratulations to the 'young people' for doing something together besides gossip and sex." Sense of lack of regard for the 'young people' in her words, she made them sound almost an annoyance.
Fortunately she was well versed in the Old Tongue so his whispered words did not fall on death ears, but that didn't create enough impact to make her renege on her previous statement.
"You should realize, Father, that I'm not a tiny child anymore." Was how she would answer his request. "We may have the same blood in our veins but you were absent too much for me to see you as much of a father and I'm too old now for you to treat me like the little girl I once was or to expect those type of actions from me." She paused as she looked at him. "Eventually this may change but we can start by giving each other what is due to a man and a woman. And we will learn, and become friends - if that's how it works itself out. After all, isn't that what family is? People connected together through a common bond that's not necessarily blood?"
"Relationships take time."
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Gawain listened silently, smiling politely. He would take whatever she threw at him....but he didn't expect that. Her comment about young people, gossip, and sex took him by surprise, and he laughed despite himself. "Oh, sorry. It's just that that is the closest I have heard you come to a joke since..well, ever. Yes, I know you are no longer a child, and I missed out on a great deal. Fortunately for us, we have plenty of time to get things right." He grinned, turning as if to head back to the inn.
"Hm. Something....ah!" He placed his hands on his temples, as if he had come down with a headache. "Blood and ashes, but that never gets any easier! Remind me sometime that I have GOT to get Air to teach me that trick of closing my mind....those random bursts of psi-messages are gonna give me an aneurysm before I live to see my pelt turn grey!" He channeled, forming a Gateway in front of him. "I'll see you back at the inn. As you said, you are not a child, so I won't insult you by offering to walk you home." He turned to her then, winked, and departed through the gateway.
"Hm. Something....ah!" He placed his hands on his temples, as if he had come down with a headache. "Blood and ashes, but that never gets any easier! Remind me sometime that I have GOT to get Air to teach me that trick of closing my mind....those random bursts of psi-messages are gonna give me an aneurysm before I live to see my pelt turn grey!" He channeled, forming a Gateway in front of him. "I'll see you back at the inn. As you said, you are not a child, so I won't insult you by offering to walk you home." He turned to her then, winked, and departed through the gateway.
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Welcome back! CAROLINA is happy to announce our second acoustic music event at the Novato shop location.
Acoustic Concert Series II -Sponsored by Citizens of Humanity- Friday, March 11th.
Shop open 10am - 6pm | Doors at 6pm | Show at 7pm.
With every ticket purchase you will receive a COH gift and will be entered to win a free pair of COH jeans.
Show will feature the acoustic duo of Greg Loiacono and Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz. Greg and Lebo will accompany each other playing their own, original songs and some of their favorite cover songs.
Greg: Greg Loiacono is a musician based out of Marin County, California. He is a founding member of the seminal California rock band, The Mother Hips. Greg plays guitar, sings and writes songs for The Hips, Sensations ( his solo project that features a rotating cast of California's elite bassists and drummers including Scott Thunes, Paul Hoaglin, Reed Mathis, Todd Roper and David Brogan) and Ball Point Birds (an acoustic duo) that he created with his musical brother, Tim Bluhm.
When Greg is not on the road, recording or sitting in with friends around town, he brings a customized, music group into Bay Area treatment Centers to help addicts recover from addiction and psychological disorders.
Lebo: Lebo (Dan Lebowitz) has been making music for over two decades. He is a founding member of ALO (Brushfire/Universal Records) where he plays guitars (acoustic, electric, lap and pedal steel) and sings. When not touring the world with ALO, he can be seen performing with Phil Lesh & Friends, Steve Kimock, Rock Collection and his projects Lebo & Friends, Incidental Animals, Brokedown in Bakersfield, One Big Guitar, and magicgravy. Lebo's time off of the road is spent recording different projects in his studio, Leboland.
{This Acoustic Concert Series will feature in-store performances by local and national musicians. On the evenings of the shows, the boutique will be transformed into an intimate venue where we can gather and listen to world-class music from a variety of artists and styles. Attendees will be invited in to hear the music, shop the beautiful merchandise and enjoy snacks and drinks. We hope to continue to build community and friendships in Marin.}


text: Securities Law Blog: Proxy Access Developments Firm Publication Publications November 29, 2016 Recently, a shareholder was the first to attempt to use proxy access bylaws to nominate a director. The shareholder was GAMCO Asset Management, and the company involved was National Fuel Gas Company (NFG). NFG amended its bylaws in March 2016 to include a proxy access bylaw and its terms are pretty typical: the bylaws provide that a shareholder, or a group of up to 20 shareholders, owning 3% or more of the Company's outstanding Common Stock continuously for at least three years may nominate and include in the company's proxy materials directors constituting up to 20% of the board, provided that the shareholders(s) and the nominee(s) satisfy the bylaw requirements. Here is NFG's proxy access bylaw. To continue reading the content in this article on the firm's Securities Law Exchange blog, please click here to view the post. Bass, Berry & Sims' Securities Law Exchange blog features commentary and practical insight on SEC updates for publicly traded companies.


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I bought this Bourjois 123 Perfect CC Eye Cream to accompany my CC cream from the same line. This is the first CC eye cream in my possession and the third eye product of BB/CC type. I hoped this would be similar to my beloved Dior BB Eye cream, which, apart from being a lovely product, is also very pricey and I believe this is a very decent, budget-friendly replacement.
The packaging of these two products is obviously very different. The Bourjois 123 Prefect CC Eye Cream comes in a pen-style twist-up form with a plain plastic applicator. To be honest, I much prefer the fluffy, doe-foot one to the touch of plastic on my skin, but I do realise that it's waaaay more hygenic as the product inside never has any contact with your skin before you twist it out. And the applicator itself is very easy to wash or even sanitise.
In my drugstore there were two shades available, out of which I picked the lighter one, which is #21 Ivory. It's a light neutral beige shade what goes well with most foundations and my 123 Perfect CC cream as well.
This eye cream goes on very smoothly, creating a kind of canvas on the skin. It has lovely moisturising properties and doesn't seem to dry me eye area much during the day, which is my basic requirement for undereye concealers. This CC eye cream, just like its all-over-the-face counterpart has SPF15, which is pretty rare among eye products.
This CC cream won't give you amazing coverage for very dark circles. My issue is redness and it does a great job neutralizing it, while still looking natural. When I set this CC cream lightly with powder it doesn't crease or cake.
I believe this is a perfect product for those of us who don't suffer from very dark circles. I see it as a must-have product for spring and especially summer when you want your make-up to look natural and hot-weather appropriate andf also long for some sun protection.
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yes i do, the only thing it says is 2 years 1 month and 14 days overseas does not say where from the little information i have found i know that he was in germany and in that area. i am looking for anybody who knew him. he has been dead for 35 years so i never met him. i have 80% of all his military items and most of his paperwork.


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Our joint London and Paris outreach is off to a great start in London, where we have been engaging with Jewish people during the High Holy Days. These feasts are an ideal time for us to connect with our people around the world, who are in the middle of reflecting and repenting.
The theme for the outreach, 613 to 3:16, refers to the 613 commandments of Rabbinical Judaism taken from the Torah (the five books of Moses), and then to the words of Jesus in John 3:16.
London branch missionary Ziggy Rogoff and volunteer Sergio witness to an Orthodox man.
Campaign leader Karl DeSouza reports:
"We've had an opportunity to speak into the Orthodox Jewish community, and many of the people we've spoken to have never heard the gospel before. They know what 613 refers to; it refers to the Torah. But they don't know about the 3:16 part, and so we want to connect the Torah with Jesus. During the holidays, people are thinking about repentance and forgiveness, and we want them to know that they can have assurance of both through Jesus the Messiah."
Alexandra, a volunteer on the campaign from the Detroit area, had a long conversation with an Orthodox man, and before they parted ways she offered to send him a copy of the New Testament. His response was: "If I read that book, my wife would divorce me."
Would you pray for the Orthodox Jewish community in London, that God would replace the fear of rejection from the community with an even stronger longing to know the truth about the Messiah?
Watch Ziggy, a Brittish Messianic Jew, explain the connection between 613 and 3:16!


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I know some of you might think "What experience is she talking about?! she's only 20", that's right, I'm only 20, but life is funny and sometimes it puts you in situations that force you to really grow up and be mature even if you didn't ask for it.
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•I'm a "people" kind of girl, I like meeting new people or just simply being around people cause I've always been interested of the idea of meeting new people because I know I will always learn me something from them. Every person you will ever meet will teach you something (call meh weird but oh well) , However I really do like and enjoy my "me" time alone in my room getting my things done and just being with myself.
•I never sleep with lights off, like never.
• Some of my favorites TV Shows : Teen Wolf , The Vampire Diares, Gossip Girl (I know its kind of old but it will always be one of my favorites.)
•I love photography and you will always catch me taking photos of sunset or sunrise (I'm obsessed) and anything beautiful that looks interesting to me.
• I use the word "Dude" with my friends simply I don't care what gender you're if you're my friend, I'm going to call you a Dude lol.
•Since I was a little kid till now, people used to say that I think and talk older than my age (I do agree thought since I grew up with elders and different age groups from my family maybe that's why) I do like that and proud of it cause I know my mind saved me from getting in alot of troubles.
• I don't follow the crowd, instead I always give it a though to see if it good and right for me or not then I will do it and I always remind my self and tell my friends "Just do your own thing" instead of being a follower.
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text: What is Coma Ecliptic? It can be interpreted as a modern rock opera, and another ambitious concept album from a band that has completely mastered that format. Dan Briggs comments: "Spending the last year immersed in a world of Quadrophenia, Operation Mindcrime, The Wall- as well as Sondheim and Lloyd Webber musicals, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky symphonic suites; writing an over the top, dramatic and forward thinking rock opera was the most natural thing to do." The story follows the wanderings of an unidentified man, stuck in a coma, as he journeys through his past lives. Each song is its own episode in a modern day, sort of The Twilight Zone-esque fashion. The unidentified man enters each world and is offered a choice: stay, or move on to the next in search of something better, something more "perfect." The man does find his ideal life, but then is offered the ultimate choice of life or death. He chooses life and wakes up to his own actual reality. It's at that moment he realizes that he had been in a coma - everything that happened had been dreams and false memories. After awakening, we find the man outside finally experiencing reality, and he sees what he has been missing: the world is beautiful, the air is fresh, and the people appear to be happy, and then he falls over dead. The take away from this is to make the best of your life. People are constantly searching for something better without taking the time to appreciate the things they have. What we need may already be here, and is hopefully real. We may all be in a coma in another life.


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Grace Hopper STEM Academy (GHSA) is located at 601 Grace Avenue in the city of Inglewood. GHSA is a public independent charter STEM academy. GHSA's focus is on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Project Lead The Way (PLTW). By combining academic rigor with social responsibility, coupled with the ability to master the process of scientific inquiry while developing a strong sense of self and a moral and ethical character (following the 6 PILLARS OF CHARACTER: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship) our students will be prepared for high school, college and careers.
GHSA serves students in grades 6, 7 & 8. Our current enrollment is 110 students with each grade capping at 60 students. Our teacher/student ratio averages 1/20. Maintaining small class sizes is a key factor in creating the best learning environment for all our students.
The Grace Hopper STEM Academy (GHSA) will exceed the minimum annual instructional minutes required by the California Department of Education (CDE) for grades 6-8. Our program will exceed these requirements by approximately 3,200 minutes. GHSA also offers ASES, an after-school enrichment and intervention program from 4:00 to 6:30 pm. After school courses include such subjects as; homework help, tutoring, music appreciation, art, modern dance, drama, cultural competency, test-taking strategies, etiquette, and business administration.
In designing the preliminary master schedules it is LEI's intent to assure that GHSA students identified as Special Needs or ELL, receive the specific courses designed to meet their Individual Education Plan and goals. Each of these students will receive the support necessary to advance and reach the highest level of there capability.
Because GHSA is designed to assist all students in becoming the mathematicians, engineers and scientists of the future, Honors and AP courses will be built into the curriculum and made available through open enrollment for the 2016-2017 school year.
Our school utilizes practical, innovative and powerful teaching methods to ignite in each student a 'passion for knowledge' and a 'love for learning'. Our school provides a fully operational Family Support Center and will be opening a full-time, comprehensive Health Clinic in the near future.
Our goal is to prepare our students to compete at the highest levels for admission to premiere high schools while embracing the 'love of learning.'


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Jasmine Bee
We are a bee product value chain improving social enterprise working to bring organic fair trade Tanzanian honey to international markets.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Food and Beverage
- Location New York City, NY, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded March 2013
- Employees 3
- Website jasminebee.org
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Jasmine Bee is a startup bee product value- chain improvement social enterprise that seeks to affect poverty alleviation, environmental preservation, female economic empowerment and boost agricultural yields for small share farmers in rural Tanzania. Our structure would be that of a combined business and NGO by deploying a capacity building intervention in existing rural beekeeping communities and establishing a wholesale bee product enterprise.
Jimi AkindeleCo-Founder
Olujimi Akindele is an attorney from the United States with a strong interest in sustainable development and rural electrification. These interests lead him to move to Tanzania and work at a local environmental and renewable energy NGO based in Dar es Salaam. He strongly believes that for African nations such as Tanzania to meet their development challenges the private sector must be harnessed in a way that supports cross-cutting social goods. Mr
Mee Jasmijn BleijerveldCo-Founder
Mee Jasminjn Bleijerveld is a trained architect from the Netherlands who has worked as a Project Manager in Europe and the United States. She has a strong passion for Beekeeping, moved to Tanzania with her family 2 years ago, where her husband has launched a biogas energy enterprise and she has immersed herself in the world of Tanzanian Apiculture while running a small retail business. Her passion led to her to meet the Tanzanian prime minister,
Eline FransenCo-Founder
Eline Fransen is an International Project Manager at a Dutch Bank and works with the other team members to support the development, strategy and organizational creation efforts of the export enterprise and the rural outreach project.
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Devonte Fields, a former defensive end at TCU, announced via twitter on his personal account that he will be taking his talents to SFA.
His tweet reads: "Just wanted to say thanks to TCU for the opportunity! Anxious to start a new chapter of life at SFA!! #Stillreppinpurple! #Blessed #Newstart"
The Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year has been separated from the university since July 22. It was then reports surfaced that he allegedly threatened his ex-girlfriend with a gun, and then hit her in the face.
At this time, it looks like Fields would be eligible to play immediately at SFA as he is transferring from an FBS to FCS university.
In 16 games with the Frogs, Fields recorded 57 tackles, 10 of those being sacks.
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Her best years, Georgia O'Keeffe often remarked, were the early years of discovery and anonymity. She hadn't yet become "our best woman painter," or Alfred Stieglitz's wife, or the sage of Abiquiu. She was an earnest young woman pursuing Art and making her living as an art teacher in towns far away from New York […]
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Scotland get World Cup off to a sorry start in Macedonia
FYR Macedonia 1 Scotland 0
George Burley insisted Scotland did enough for a draw as their World Cup qualifying campaign got off to the worst possible start in Macedonia.
In his first competitive game in charge, Burley watched his side concede just five minutes into the game in a wretched first-half display in Skopje.
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Crushing blow: Macedonia's Ilco Naumoski (centre) celebrates what proved to be the winning goal against Scotland.
But Burley, still without a win four games after taking over, insists his side's improved second-half display deserved more.
"Disappointed to lose but all of the second half I thought we dominated the game," he told Setanta Sports 1.
"We kept battling away until the end and I thought they deserved something out of it."
Scotland were denied what appeared two good penalty shouts in the same attack when Kenny Miller and James McFadden were brought down in the box.
"I spoke to the boys and they thought it was a stonewall penalty," said Burley, who refused to criticise a referee he had expressed concern about in the build-up to the match.
"Overall, the referee had a good game. Maybe that decision he got wrong."
The home side took the lead after just five minutes and Ilcho Naumoski's strike proved to be decisive as Srecko Katanec's men held on to claim all three points.
The searing temperatures in Skopje were always going to be an issue for the Scots and they lacked a cutting edge for the remainder of the game, failing to find the goal that would at least have allowed them to put an early point on the board.
Burley had his preferred team in mind for several weeks ahead of this match and there were no real surprises when his starting XI was revealed.
Miller and McFadden both started and were given the task of getting the goals despite a less than inspiring partnership in last month's drab goalless friendly against Northern Ireland at Hampden.
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Getting shirty: Scotland's Shaun Maloney fights off Robert Petrov
With West Brom's James Morrison injured, Barry Robson was given the nod in midfield alongside Celtic team-mates Paul Hartley and Scott Brown, as well as Darren Fletcher.
As expected, stand-in skipper Stephen McManus was able to shake off a knock he picked up in last week's Old Firm derby to take his place in the heart of defence with Gary Caldwell.
Hundreds of Scotland fans were locked out of the City Stadium before kick-off when the Macedonian Football Association refused to allow entry to those with tickets for the home end, fearing for the safety of fans.
The 1,000 travelling supporters who did manage to see the game witnessed the worst possible start when Scotland found themselves trailing with just five minutes on the clock.
The Macedonians earned a free-kick just outside the area when McManus was deemed to have fouled Goran Maznov and Goce Sedloski stepped up for the set-piece. His effort was touched on to the post by goalkeeper Craig Gordon but Naumoski pounced to rifle home the rebound from six yards.
The Scots could have hit back through a free-kick of their own when Graham Alexander was fouled by Robert Petrov but Robson's curling shot was weak and easily smothered by goalkeeper Petar Milosevski.
Macedonia threatened again when Petrov provided a cross from the left for Goran Pandev but his ferocious volley cannoned off the body of Caldwell, denying the home side's star man the chance to add to their tally.
Scotland then had a decent chance of their own when Fletcher set up McFadden and he embarked on a run which took him past several red jerseys only for his shot to be blocked by the body of Igor Mitreski, before the Birmingham striker nodded the rebound wide.
At the other end, the home fans screamed for a penalty when Maznov went to ground under pressure from Gordon but the Macedonia man appeared to make the most of it and the pleas were ignored by referee Pavel Kralovec.
Veliche Shumolikoski then released Maznov on a surging run which was halted by Caldwell. The ball broke to Pandev but he fired straight at Gordon in what proved to be the last real chance of the first half.
A Pandev corner was cleared as far as Shumolikoski who unleashed a thunderous long range effort that the Scots keeper just managed to tip over the crossbar with one hand.
Gordon then punched to safety a dangerous cross into the box from Pandev before Maznov could connect with a header at his right post.
Scotland made their first change when Kris Commons replaced Hartley, before Gordon was again called into action to block a point-blank effort from Naumoski.
Burley's men failed with their own claim for a penalty when Miller played through McFadden and he went to ground as the goalkeeper dived to claim the ball. No spot-kick was forthcoming and all McFadden earned for his protests was a yellow card from the Czech official.
Miller was withdrawn for Rangers team-mate Kris Boyd with ten minutes to go as the Scots had one last throw of the dice but Macedonia held on for maximum points with Burley still seeking his first win as Scotland manager.
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The Gambia's government cited a threat that the electoral commission office was going to be "burnt down" by arsonist as the reason for their illegal occupation of the building.
Such illogical statement says one thing: it is a one big fat lie. Even a five-year-old kid knows it is one big fat lie.
The government failed to mention who made the threat "now that the threat has been abated" and staffers can return to work. You cannot abate a threat if you do not know where it is coming from. Simple, since you have left the building and do not know the who issued it, it can still be attacked.
Who is going to set the IEC ablaze anyway?
Definitely not the opposition supporters. I know happy people set places ablaze and paint the town red. Yes, literarily. What I have never seen is those happy with the outcome of an election setting an election house ablaze, contextually. It has illogical as accusing the opposition of rigging the polls in a dictatorship.
President Yahya Jammeh suffered a surprise defeat in the hands of Adama Barrow in the December 1 presidential election. He first accepted defeat and then rejected the outcome of the election a week later. He has since accused the electoral commission of rigging the polls and running a sham election.
The IEC building was occupied the day West African leaders arrived in Banjul to hold talks with Jammeh, the opposition, and the electoral commission. They agreed: Jammeh must step down and hand over power peacefully or have him militarily extinguished.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon even called the occupation of the electoral commission office "an outrageous act of disrespect" and called on the loyal Jammeh forces to vacate the building.
President Yahya Jammeh has legally challenged the outcome of the elections. He wants to be declared the winner or the polls have to be nullified and a fresh election held.
IEC Chief Alieu Momar Njai has to be served to have Jammeh's election petition in the Supreme Court heard. He cannot be served in his home. It is, therefore, important for him to be in his office.
The Gambia's military must also explain if sensitive electoral materials were tampered with. Ballot boxes are sealed for 30 days at the electoral commission office in case a recount is requested.
Anyway, it was President Yahya Jammeh that lost the elections, complained that IEC was fraudulent, unconstitutionally annulled the results, accused the electoral commission of sending away 25,000 voters who were supposedly his supporters whiles the opposition were praising the commission.
So who was the "imminent threat" that was going to burn down the IEC office? I guess you know the culprit: Yahya Jammeh and the APRC. There is no other explanation for this. He has testified against himself. In all, it just reminded of another fat lie: the so-called accident in which the killed former intelligence chief Daba Marena escaped.


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HUMA1300L Introduction to Archeology (3 Credits)
This course is an introduction to anthropological archeology. It first examines the history and development of the discipline along with a survey of the methods, theories, and practice in modern archeology. The course then focuses on the major developments in world prehistory. These include human origins and the evolution of culture, prehistoric technology, peopling of the globe, the domestication of plants and animals, prehistoric trade and exchange, the development of tribes and chiefdoms, and the formation of ancient states in the Old and New Worlds.
HUMA1310L Cultural Anthropology (3 Credits)
This survey course involves the study of human beings and their cultures, customs, origins and development. Specific topics examined and discussed include human origins and evolution, human cultures, race and ethnicity, religions, taboos, political systems, economic systems, kinship, sexual norms and mores, gender roles, marriage, educational systems, art, and the effects of globalization on local cultures.
HUMA1450L Myth in 20th Century America (3 Credits)
The course introduces 20th century U.S.. popular culture as a source of insights into the development of both the American culture and the American dream. Myths of the old frontier, rugged individualism, success, endless abundance, rural simplicity, redemptive mission, melting pot and new frontier, are covered. These are examined through the impact of various media including fiction, speeches, movies, TV and advertisements. Classes consist of informal lectures, group seminars on readings, and use of the media mentioned above.
HUMA1500L Arabic Language and Culture (3 Credits)
This course is designed to teach the students the Arabic alphabet, numbers and their sounds accurately. Also, to teach basic vocabulary words of conversation in the form of politeness, social greetings, etc. Also, the course touches on different Arabic culture, such as education, politics, women's roles, dress code, food, etc.
HUMA1510L Chinese Language and Culture (3 Credits)
This course is intended for non-Chinese background students with no previous knowledge of Chinese. Emphasis is placed on developing conversational and reading skills, while some relevant cultural background is also integrated with the language training. The Chinese phonetic system "Pinyin" is introduced at the beginning of the course. Vocabularies of 120 words plus approximately 30 sentence patterns are covered in this course.
HUMA1550L Music Appreciation (3 Credits)
This course is designed to see and understand the connection of music to human life and living in order to demonstrate its importance in the world. Throughout this course, music of different cultures and styles will be explored in our societies. (9/2013)
HUMA1600L Introduction to Theatre (3 Credits)
This overview of theater through the production process combines a history of theater with elements of stage craft, acting technique, play analysis and script writing. (Prerequisite: ENGL1200L or LENG1200 or POI)
HUMA1610L Acting and Scene Study I (3 Credits)
A workshop-style, basic acting and scene study, this course is based on the Sanford Meisner approach, and an overview of the great theater practitioners from Thespis to Stanislavski. Students participate in vocal and movement activities, as well as theater exercises, and they analyze characters through scene studies of playwrights' texts. (Prerequisite: HUMA1600L or LHUM1600)
HUMA2000L Introduction to Canadian Studies (3 Credits)
Students acquire an understanding of a nation that is becoming increasingly important to the United States. Why two countries instead of one? Free trade? A unified North American economic zone? Quebec separatism? National health care? These and other pertinent issues are studied and discussed. By comparing the United States with Canada, students gain a better understanding of their own culture.
HUMA2500L Humanities in Western Civilization I (3 Credits)
This interdisciplinary course examines evolutions of western culture from its classical origins up through 1550 A.D.. This is accomplished through the examination of multiple perspectives including literature, art, music, philosophy, politics and theater. Classes consist of lectures, group seminars on readings and student projects.
HUMA2520L Humanities in Western Civilization II (3 Credits)
This interdisciplinary course examines the ideological, economic, political, religious, psychological, artistic, social, philosophical, and military components involved in the cause and effect relationships which have molded the western cultural heritage from 1650 to the present. Classes consist of informal lectures, readings, quizzes, seminars on readings, and student presentations.


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MAP DUB For FS9 Released!/
FS9. I don't know how I missed the official release statement I still don't see it. But while accessing my Aerosoft account this morning, I just happened to notice the FS9 download versions of Mega Airport Dublin. So I guess consider this the official release statement. FS9ners, have at it and have fun and in case you missed it, be sure to check out the ADX FirstLook! Happy Flighting!


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The Enso Women's Infinity ring is stylish + classy + functional. The raised inner band showcases a mesmerizing infinity pattern, symbolizing timeless commitment. Enso rings are all made with medical grade silicone and feature anti ring avulsion technology. This makes the rings durable, non-conductive, scratch resistant, hypoallergenic and highly versatile!
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